April 21, 1985
Rudi Gernreich dies at age of 62 (Fashion Designer and Founding Member of The Mattachine Society gay rights group)
This month in LGBT History
April
April 6, 1912
Birthday - Harry Hay (Activist, Co-founder of The Mattachine Society, 1950)
April 11, 1956
Birthday - Michael Callen (Singer, songwriter, AIDS activist and author recognized as a co-inventor of safe(r) sex promotion and co-founder People With AIDS self-empowerment)
April 17, 1965
Mattachine Society of DC organizes first official protest at the White House by gay rights group
April 7, 1966
The first "Gay Community Center" is opened in the U.S., in the city of San Francisco
April 19, 1967
Columbia University charters the Student Homophile League, the first organization of its kind in the U.S.
April 8, 1974
The American Psychiatric Association removes its "sickness" definition of homosexuality
April 1, 1985
First classes held at Harvey Milk School in NYC, the first city-funded high school for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth in U.S.
April 21, 1985
Rudi Gernreich dies at age of 62 (Fashion Designer and Founding Member of The Mattachine Society gay rights group)
April 29, 1997
The State of Hawaii creates a "domestic partners registry"
April 30, 1997
Ellen Morgan, played by Ellen DeGeneres, comes out on ABC television's "Ellen"
April 26, 2000
Vermont's Governor Howard Dean signs the nation's first civil unions bill
April 21, 2005
Connecticut Governor signs Civil Unions law